Japanese chestnuts are known for their hearty texture, subtle sweetness, and size! Ones from Obuse are especially large. Experience a harvest there and feast your eyes on traditional "chestnut rice." ...

Japanese beetles are drawn to the trees, which originated in Asia, as well. The very first chestnut trees were often referred ...

The main culprit, chestnut blight, was identified by a USDA botanist in the early 1900s when all of the American chestnut trees around the Bronx Zoo died. He concluded that the fungus had spread from ...